But it probably wasnt the best footage to make the point. jesse is alleged to have half-heartedly chased the ball - but in a situation where there were five saints players and he actually tackled one being farren ray. Where exactly were the other swans who should have been roughly in the vicinity ? from the footage I saw there wasn't a single other swan about. Then jesse is whacked for staying where the stoppage was - a stoppage I might add which was on our defensive side of half way. And blow me down if he wasn't standing within five metres of his man who was Kosi - perhaps the point was two more lazy footballers you could not have found. But to have whacked jesse for that footage was pissweak.
Having said that i generally believe that jesse is a fairly lazy player who is led to the ball as often as not. i reckon his second efforts are nowhere near as bad in the ruck as what they are in the forward line - in the ruck he quite frequently gets hands on the ball and gets useful possessions. in the forward line he often looks a bit lost. But again on the weekend he gets the rough end of the stick - I'd be amazed if he didn't lay a legitimate tackle on the weekend in the third quarter only for the umpire to call too high and then to pay 50 against mcglynn for some sort of backchat (and if the backchat was to the effect - you are only calling too high against one team tonight you @#$#ing useless umpire it would have been pretty close to what i was saying myself)
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